United States Bureau of Pensions form No. 780,434 issued to Lottie Waldrup, widow of Union soldier William Waldrup, Co. F., 6th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. The form states that Lottie will receive $12 per month beginning in March 1914, payable...

United States Bureau of Pensions form No. 529,859 issued to William Waldrup, Pvt., Co. F, 6th Tennessee Cavalry Regt., USA. The form states that William will receive $12 per month, payable quarterly beginning in February 1913. Waldrup was a farmer...

This postcard was sent from the Bureau of Pensions to the son-in-law of Pvt. Stephen Johnson, Co I., 4th Tennessee Cav., USA, to acknowledge the receipt of paperwork related to his Civil War pension. Johnson was a 30-year-old farmer who enrolled...

Pension application of a former slave in Tennessee named Ben Davis. The information indicates that Davis was "given" to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest as a personal servent during the Civil War.

In this letter from the Bureau of Pensions, Commissioner Henry Clay Evans rejected an additional pension claim of Shadrick Lee of Oral, Tenn. Lee served as a private, Co. E, 3rd Tenn. Inf., USA, was imprisoned at Andersonville, Ga. and had reported...

Charles Littrell's application for a Confederate Pension. He provides proof of his service in the Confederate Army in the Civil War as a servant to his then-owner, Jim Littrell, who served under Lieutenant Harden, Captain Cox, and Colonel Jack...

Announcement of fund-raising fiddling and banjo picking contest to raise money for the Leonidas Polk Bivouac No. 3, and William Henry Trousdale Camp No. 495 of Confederate Veterans and for "indigent and decrepit Confederate Soldiers." There is...